Jarosław – Kovel railway line
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 Railway station building in Rawa-Ruska
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| Route number : | 91, 101, 116 (Polish part) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 74 + 174 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435/1520 mm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Jarosław – Kovel line is a branch line in Poland and Ukraine . It runs from Jarosław , a small town in eastern Poland, to Kovel , a railway junction in western Ukraine. The line, with a gauge of 1435 mm (European standard gauge; in Poland to Werchrata ) or 1520 mm (Russian broad gauge; from Werchrata), is single-track and not electrified. On the Polish section, operations are carried out by the Polish State Railways , on the Ukrainian section by the Ukrainian Railways , in particular the Lvivska Salisnyzja .
The Jaroslau − Sokal railway was opened to traffic by the Galician Carl Ludwig Railway on July 6, 1884, after the line had been licensed in 1881. The 147-kilometer route ended in Sokal near the Galician border.
In 1892 the railway company was nationalized, since then the line has been in state ownership, after 1918 it became the property of the Polish State Railways PKP. As a result, the route on the Russian part was changed to standard gauge, in 1939 the PKP operated the course book number 411 (Lwów - Włodzimierz - Kowel) and the course book number 412 (Jarosław - Rawa Ruska - Sokal) on the railway line.
During the First World War , the Russian occupation troops built the connection between Sokal and Wolodymyr-Wolynskyj in 1915 , and as early as 1908, Wolodymyr-Wolynskyj had a railway connection to Kovel through the Russian Southwest Railways .
Due to the occupation of eastern Poland by the Soviet Union shortly at the beginning of the Second World War in 1939, part of the line came into the possession of the Soviet railways , which immediately began changing individual lines to Russian broad gauge (1520 mm), but this became apparent after the attack on Germany the Soviet Union reversed in 1941 and subordinated the routes to the Eastern Railway . The Yaroslav – Rava Ruska – Sokal – Vladimir Volynsk route was given the number 533s. After the end of the war, the line was again taken over by the Soviet Railways, which traced the entire route back to broad gauge and integrated it into their network, which was taken over by the Ukrainian Railways in 1991.
On the Polish side, route number 101 now leads to Hrebenne, the border crossing at Werchrata has been used for freight traffic since the facilities were expanded between 1954 and 1956.
See also
Web links
- Rawa-Ruska-Sokal timetable from 2014
- Tscherwonohrad-Kovel timetable from 2014
- Photos of the railway line between Rava-Ruska and Chervonohrad
- Photos of the railway line between Chervonohrad and Kovel
- Route information for the Polish part
- The recording of route number 101 from Jarosław to Hrebenne, and on to Zamość
literature
- History of the railways of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy . Editing by Hermann Strach, Vienna, Budapest 1908 ff., Multi-volume standard work at the time.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Reichsgesetzblatt of 1881, No. 145, page 467
- ^ Reichsgesetzblatt of 1882, No. 103, page 424
- ↑ Rozkład Polska, lato 1939 - Tabela 411: Lvov - Włodzimierz - Kovel
- ↑ Rozkład Polska, lato 1939 - Tabela 412: Jaroslaw - Rava-Ruska - Sokal
- ^ German course book - annual timetable 1944/45 - part 6 (KBS 501 - 536)
